Mike Lyon

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A brief ‘break’ to make a table

November 20, 2005 By Mike Lyon

Several months ago, I promised my daughter, Allegra (Leggie, Legs, Lulu), I’d make a dining table for her apartment in Boulder… As she’s coming home for Thanksgiving, my wife has insisted that I postpone additional work on the big press to complete Leggie’s table… Mark Sfirri and I were roommates while we were teaching at […]

Filed Under: Furniture, Video Tagged With: Acrylics, Allegra, Anderson Ranch, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Apartment, Big Eye, Chairs, Circular Table, Coming Home, Cool Stuff, Dining Table, eccentric lathe, Lathe, Lulu, Mark Sfirri, Marker, Monster Table, Painting, Roommates, Spindle, Table Legs, Thanksgiving, Turning, Turnings

hand stamped tiled woodcuts

November 24, 1997 By Mike Lyon

Over Thanksgiving we flew to Port Townsend, WA for a family get-together with my sister-in-law, Barbara Stanny.  I took along a tiny watercolor set and a couple of stamps I’d carved — a quarter circle and a half-circle.  I entertained myself on the plane ride by printing some tilings (one sqare at at time) on […]

Filed Under: Woodblock Tagged With: Moku-Hanga, Newsprint, Port Townsend Wa, Prints, Quarter Circle, Sister In Law, Stamps, Thanksgiving, Watercolor Set, Woodblock Print, Woodcut

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